Book Excerpt:
"One snowy night in 1998, Brooke Mulcahy's car slides off the road in rural Vermont. Her car is discovered. She is not. Twenty-one years later, Robert Kirby, Brooke's stepbrother, is paid a visit by a young woman (Lily), who claims to be Brooke's daughter. Since a tumultuous upbringing, Robert, formerly "Bobby," has enjoyed considerable success. Now an esteemed professor at a private Upstate New York university, Robert has just received a significant NEH grant. After Lily's visit, Robert's life is upended.
His wife Stephanie reveals she is unhappy in the marriage and takes their teenage son to visit her sister in PA. Brooke's former best friend, Aaron Reardon, still devastated from Brooke's disappearance, offers to help. And forever lurking in the background is Mike Rakowski, Brooke's ex, a possessive, abusive drug addict.
As Robert's world unravels, he revisits that night twenty-one years ago when everything went wrong, unearthing a horrible, bone-chilling secret. In the vein of Simone St. James' Sun Down Motel and other female-driven domestic psychological thrillers today, ALL WHO WANDER mines the depths of past transgression, begging the question: do past sin automatically negate future happiness?"
Title: All Who Wander
Author: Joe Clifford
Publisher: Square Tire Books
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"All Who Wander" by Joe Clifford
My Sentiments:
All that is left to say is that 'All Who Wander' is a psychological thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages. This was quite a read of a dysfunctional family that was off the chart...on this 'haunting journey."
Be ready for a little bit of it all from a Vermont disappearance of two decades, secrets, and regrets of the past. This author gives the reader quite a read of a family with lots of trauma and the results from their past.
To understand this, we see the protagonist, Robert [Bobby] Kirby, half-brother, who will explore this family mess along with a horrible ending for him. However, some other lurking characters in the story gave me pause, such as Mike Rakowski, Aaron Reardon, and Brooke Mulchay.
You must pick up this read to see how this psychologically twisted mystery story will all emerge as it unravels.
Author: Joe Clifford
Publisher: Square Tire Books
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Four
Review:
"All Who Wander" by Joe Clifford
My Sentiments:
All that is left to say is that 'All Who Wander' is a psychological thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages. This was quite a read of a dysfunctional family that was off the chart...on this 'haunting journey."
Be ready for a little bit of it all from a Vermont disappearance of two decades, secrets, and regrets of the past. This author gives the reader quite a read of a family with lots of trauma and the results from their past.
To understand this, we see the protagonist, Robert [Bobby] Kirby, half-brother, who will explore this family mess along with a horrible ending for him. However, some other lurking characters in the story gave me pause, such as Mike Rakowski, Aaron Reardon, and Brooke Mulchay.
You must pick up this read to see how this psychologically twisted mystery story will all emerge as it unravels.
Thank you to NetGalley for the advance read copy.
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